A new tool used by some police departments uses software that computes algorithms of past crime information to “predict” when and where future crimes will take place. As the recent ABA Journal article reports, “the idea is to compile past crime details, run them through algorithms and identify future hot spots of specific crimes, such […]

Not according to Joseph E. Scott, as he battles to protect our fourth amendment rights in the Tenth District Court of Appeals for the State of Ohio Joseph E. Scott – Columbus Criminal Defense Attorney On September 18, 2013, attorney Joseph E. Scott argued an important appellate case in the Tenth District Court of Appeals […]

In this era of political paralysis on Capitol Hill it should be headline news that conservatives and liberals are working together to reform the sentencing process for non-violent drug dealers. The question is whose proposed reform will be enacted as legislation? Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows; to illustrate this point, consider the following legislation […]